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dec 21, 1959 - Domino Theory

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Eisenhower’s metaphor that when one country fell to Communists, its neighbors would then be threatened and collapse one after another like a row of dominoes; this belief became a major rationale for U.S. intervention in Vietnam.

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dec 21, 1959
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~ 65 years ago